Sheffield



(No Model.)

0. VOORI-IIS.

PANTALOONS SUPPOETE'R. No. 391,726. 4 Patented Oct. 23, 1888.

Warren @TAITES CALVIN VOORHIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, ABRAHAM SHENFIELD, AND HARRY L. SHENFIELD, OF SAME PLACE.

PANTALOONS=SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,726, dated October 23, 1888. Application filed September 29, 1887. Serial No. 251,007. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CALVIN VOORHIS, of the city and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Pantaloons-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

Waistbands have been made for the upper parts of pants with upwardly-projecting ears at the sides of the front portion and at the middle of the back, and to these the suspend ers have been hooked; but the tension of the suspenders tends to make the side portions of the pants over the hips loose and uncomfortable and to pull the pants unduly at the crotch, especially when the person is seated.

The object of my invention is to distribute the strain uniformly at the top of the pants, to afford additional security of connection between the pants and the suspenders, and to prevent inconvenience from buttons breaking off.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the upper portion of the pants, and Fig. 2 is a similar view of the suspenders for the different points of attachment.

The flaps or ears (1 are of a suitable shape to be attached along their lower edges to the top part of the pants at the insides of the band and in about the ordinary positions for the Suspender-buttons both in front and at the back, and in each of these flaps there is a button-hole, 2, adapted to receive the button 3 upon the suspender, and, the fabric of the suspender being usually much stronger than that of the cloth of the pants, the buttons are not liable to become detached. I also provideasec- 0nd button, 4, and button-hole 5 as an additional security at each suspender-end, and

place the button on the flap and the buttonhole in the suspenderend, such suspenderend being double in order to receive the two 0 sets of fastening-s. This gives the additional convenience of being able to support the drawers by either buttons upon them or buttonholes or loops as usually provided."

I have shown the buttons 4 below the ton-holes 2 at the front of the pants and above them at the back parts of the pants.

I do not limit myself to any particular character of suspendenwebbing or Suspender-ends,

but prefer to have the ends of double or folded 5c webbing, as shown, to form two tips, one of which has abutton-hole and the other a button.

By having a button and buttonhole together at each point of connection on the pants there is less risk of the parts breaking or becoming 5 injured than where a single button or buttonhole is used, because there is double strength; and if two button-holes were used together at one place one would be liable to tear or extend into the other, and no benefit would be 60 but- 45 sus- 65 

